Swarming Landscapes The Art of Designing For Climate Adaptation /

This book advocates a fresh approach to planning that anticipates, rather than reacts to, the changes in climate currently in process. Today's spatial planning procedures rely on historical evidence instead of preparing for factors that by definition lie in the future, yet which are relatively...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Roggema, Rob (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edición:1st ed. 2012.
Colección:Advances in Global Change Research, 48
Temas:
Human geography.
Climatology.
Landscape architecture.
Human Geography.
Climate Sciences.
Landscape Architecture.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents: Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Difficulties to Design for Climate Adaptation
  • 2. Turbulence and Uncertainty
  • 3. Complexity Theory, Spatial Planning and Adaptation to Climate Change
  • 4. Transition and Transformation
  • 5. Networks as Driving Force for Climate Design
  • 6. Swarm Planning Theory
  • 7. Swarm Methodology
  • 8. Swarming Landscapes
  • 9. Cities as Organisms
  • 10. The Best City
  • Index.

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